No way - no moped for you my boy !
We see nasty accidents involving motorcycles far too often. Yesterday again the police, the SAMU and the "Service for the help of the injured and asphyxiated" converged on a bike in pieces and its rider not looking too much better.
In fact you are 20 times more likely to be killed on a motorbike than in a car.
Although all the accidents we have seen so far have involved big, powerful motorbikes, still I think the only way you'd get one of those cute moped cyclomoteur things in our family is if we could always ride them on cyclepaths, which is, I think, forbidden.
There's just too many cars and as the bikes zip round between the traffic and zoom about they get hit by the cars.
I broke the news to Gwilym that he could forget his dreams of a moped, and he said "OK, if I can have a Porsche".
He can certainly have a Porsche if 1. he buys it, insures it and runs it 2. he lets me have a go!
In fact you are 20 times more likely to be killed on a motorbike than in a car.
Although all the accidents we have seen so far have involved big, powerful motorbikes, still I think the only way you'd get one of those cute moped cyclomoteur things in our family is if we could always ride them on cyclepaths, which is, I think, forbidden.
There's just too many cars and as the bikes zip round between the traffic and zoom about they get hit by the cars.
I broke the news to Gwilym that he could forget his dreams of a moped, and he said "OK, if I can have a Porsche".
He can certainly have a Porsche if 1. he buys it, insures it and runs it 2. he lets me have a go!
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It has always struck me just how many young men there are in France with limbs missing or who are wheel-chair bound and, having seen roadside accidents there with motor-cycles, I have attributed many of them to the moped/motor cycle habits of French youth. As you point out, some of their antics are quite hair-raising.
As for the Porsche, any chance of a quick nip down to Barcelona in it? (Via the autobahns of course.)